ITS SOUND:

According to reports, The Beatles have quite a bit to do with the song's epic sound, with Alan "Reni" Wren revealing the track came about as a result of a "joke" when Gary "Mani" Mounfield played Paul McCartney’s Taxman riff backwards.

As The Clash reports, the drummer said: “Mani would play the riff backwards during sound-checks and we played along over the top for a laugh. Finally we said, Let’s do this joke-song properly and see what happens.'”

Despite Reni's admission about taking inspiration from the 1966 Revolver track, it's not something a young Ian Brown would have admitted freely.

After all, in his now infamous early interview with guitarist John Squire, when asked what comments hurt him most about the band, he replied: "That we're influenced by the '60s".

THE LYRICS:

To make a song truly epic, you need some truly over-the-top lyrics- and though its verses are pretty run-of-the mill, they serve their purpose in building towards the song's massive refrain, which sees Ian Brown declare: "I am the resurrection and I am the life".

Now when it comes to messianic imagery, it doesn't get more blatant than that, does it?

And of course it makes for a pretty decent point to stand up with your arms outstreched on the terraces.

See the lyrics in full here:

Down down, you bring me downI hear you knocking at my door and I can't sleep at night

Your face, it has no placeNo room for you inside my house, I need to be alone

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from youI don't care where you've been or what you plan to do

Turn turn, I wish you'd learnThere's a time and place for everything I've got to get it through

Cut loose, you're no useI couldn't stand another second in your company

Don't waste your words I don't need anything from youI don't care where you've been or what you plan to do